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Why shouldn I just use the built-in IIS 5 HTTP compression feature?

April 26, 2017built-in compression feature http IIS

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Why shouldn I just use the built-in IIS 5 HTTP compression feature?

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The built-in HTTP encoding for IIS 5 on Windows 2000 systems can cause site content to break for many reasons and lacks important features that administrators are looking for: • IIS 5 compression is notorious for browser-specific compatibility bugs for which Microsoft has issued client fixes but has ignored on the server side. Two examples of the worst browser/IIS 5 compression bugs include the “first 2048 bytes” bug and the uppercase characters bug. httpZip, on the other hand, handles these and many other browser-related bugs with IIS 5 compression on the server side, removing the upgrade responsibility from the client and insuring that compression is handled properly in every instance. • Microsoft cautions against using the IIS 5 compression feature for dynamic content. httpZip was designed and tested to handle dynamic content compression and includes such performance optimizations as dynamic caching of compressed files with their query string or cookie value and the ability to adjus